AAA

AAA, or Triple-A is a three-letter initialism or abbreviation, and may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

In literature

• A. A. Attanasio, a science fiction writer
• AAA, a Japanese manga by Haruka Fukushima

In music

• AAA (band), a Japanese pop band
• "AAA", the sixth track on City (Strapping Young Lad album)
• Access All Areas, a series of music CDs by the Scotland rock band Runrig
• Adult album alternative, a radio format
• Against All Authority (-AAA-), an American ska-punk band
• American Accordionists' Association
• Angels & Airwaves, an American alternative rock band, also commonly referred to as "AVA"
• AntAcidAudio, an independent record label
• Triple A (musical group), Dutch trance group

In visual arts

• Allied Artists Association, an exhibiting society in London founded in 1908
• American Abstract Artists, an artist-run organization formed in 1936 to promote and foster public understanding of abstract art
• Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution archive in Washington, D.C.
• Asia Art Archive, a nonprofit organisation documenting the recent history of contemporary art in Asia
• Associated American Artists, an art gallery and art marketing business
• Associated Argentine Artists, an Argentine film studio

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• AAA (video game industry) (pronounced "triple A"), a classification term used for games in the video game industry
• TripleA, an open source wargame

Sports

• Triple-A (baseball), the highest level of North American minor league baseball
• American Airlines Arena, a sports and entertainment venue in Miami, Florida, and the Miami Heat's home stadium
• Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, a Mexican wrestling promotion
• Amateur Athletic Association of England
• Arkansas Activities Association
• Asian Athletics Association
• Montreal AAA, Canada's oldest athletic association

Economics

• Aaa bond credit rating
• American Accounting Association
• American Arbitration Association
• American Academy of Actuaries

Politics

• Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, US federal legislation
• Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, US federal legislation
• Argentine Anticommunist Alliance, an Argentinian death squad of the mid-1970s
• Alianza Americana Anticomunista ("American Anticommunist Alliance" in Spanish), a Colombian para-military organization, 1978–1979
• Alianza Apostólica Anticomunista, in Spain
• Anti-Austerity Alliance, a political party in Ireland

Organizations

• Puerto Rico Aqueducts and Sewers Authority (AAA in Spanish)
• Alberta Association of Architects, a regulatory body
• American Ambulance Association
• American Automobile Association, a motor club, also called "Triple A"
• American Anthropological Association
• Australian Automobile Association
• Agricultural Adjustment Administration, a US government agency created in the 1930s
• Advanced Accelerator Applications, a radiopharmaceutical company

In science and technology

In biology and medicine

• AAA proteins (ATPases Associated with various cellular Activities)
• Triple-A syndrome
• Abdominal aortic aneurysm
• American Association of Anatomists
• Anti-actin antibodies
• Cavaticovelia aaa (aaa water treader), an insect from Hawaii

In chemistry

• Asymmetric allylic alkylation
• Amino acid analysis
• Aromatic amino acids
• Arylalkanolamine
• Amalgam (chemistry), represented in medieval alchemical texts with "aaa"

In computing

• AAA protocol, "Authentication, Authorization and Accounting", an access control, policy enforcement and auditing framework for computing systems
• Amiga Advanced Architecture chipset, hardware for a proposed Commodore Amiga computer
• ASCII adjust after addition, an Intel BCD opcode
• The highest of the three levels of web site accessibility measured by Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

Other uses in science and technology

• AAA, a rank on an alphabetical grading scale (two ranks higher than 'grade A')
• AAA battery, a standard size of dry cell
• Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• Analog-analog-analog, a designation for analog recording
• Angle-angle-angle, see Similarity (geometry)
• Anti-aircraft artillery
• Association of Autonomous Astronauts

Other uses

• Adopt-An-Alleyway Youth Empowerment Project, San Francisco, California
• Anaa Airport in French Polynesia (IATA airport code AAA)
• Ansett Australia, an Australian airline (ICAO airline code AAA)
• Antique Airplane Association
• Ghotuo language (ISO 639-3 language code)
• Logan County Airport (Illinois) (FAA airport code AAA)
• Morse code for "aerial attacker", used in conjunction with SOS

See also

• AAAA (disambiguation)
• AA (disambiguation)
• A (disambiguation)